The Moped Adventure

After our hike on Wednesday morning, we headed to the train station to meet Brady, Joe, and Billy, three of the guys from our program who were staying in a different town in Switzerland and coming to Interlaken for the day. After some brief confusion (there are two train stations in Interlaken and they arrived at the one across town from where we were and couldn't get ahold of us for awile), we reunited and talked about our plan for the afternoon. As we were walking through town, we passed a place that rented out ATVs and mopeds. That caught Brady and Billy's eye, but us girls weren't too sure about it. But after talking to the rental guy, who said we could double up and each pay half price and described the scenic road that led out of town and towards the mountains, we were convinced. After a quick practice drive, our group of eight people and four mopeds hit the road. 

Kelly and Brady leading the way

I don't think I stopped smiling during our entire two hour ride. The setting was absolutely beautiful, driving through this valley between snow-covered mountains, colorful trees, misty cold air, green fields, little chalet houses, cows wearing actual jingling cowbells, babbling streams, waterfalls flowing down the rock cliffs- it was perfect, an unforgettable experience that I was lucky enough to share with some great people. 

At one point Billy, who I was riding with, said something like "Can you believe we're here, as part of our semester of school?!" It really was sort of mind-boggling, thinking about how we were just mopeding through Switzerland on some random Wednesday afternoon in November. We are so, so lucky to be having these experiences.